I wrote a Telegram bot for video/image translation, and also Firefox/Chrome addons to help translate web content with smart content extraction and non-breaking layouts.
The Firefox addon/Chrome extension is free, but you need your own OpenRouter/Gemini API key. The cost of web translation is really low, you can translate an article for ~$0.01 with really good quality. (You can try at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/subly-xyz/)
I built it because I use Firefox the most and it seemed like no translate addon was good or simple enough. Chrome translate kinda works, but the quality is so low; it usually doesn't understand the article context.
I think MCP is awesome, mainly because it forces devs to design the simplest possible tools/APIs/functions so even an average-performance LLM can use them correctly to get things done.
As developers, we often want everything to be rich, verbose, and customizable — but the reality is that for most users (and now for AIs acting on their behalf), simplicity wins every time. It’s like designing a great UI: the fewer ways you can get lost, the more people (or models) can actually use it productively.
If MCP ends up nudging the ecosystem toward small, well-defined, composable capabilities, that’s a win far beyond just “AI integration.”
I don’t like MCP because it relies on good faith from the plugin provider. It works great in closed, trusted environments but it cannot scale across trust boundaries.
It just begs for spam and fraud, with badly-behaving services advertising lowest-cost, highest-quality, totally amazing services. It feels like the web circa 1995… lots of implicit trust that isn’t sustainable.
Totally agree - the true source of all of the value here is the new incentive to write very simple services with very simple documentation and to make that documentation easily discoverable.
It fills a gap that exists in most service documentation: an easily discoverable page for developers (specifically, those who already know how to use their ecosystem of choice's HTTP APIs) that has a very short list of the service's most fundamental functionality with a simplified specification so they can go and play around with it.
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
False. I almost never upvote an article without reading it, and half of those upvotes are because I already read something similar recently that gave me the same information.
I'll submit in the second case (already read something similar) that, properly speaking, we should read both, and upvote (or submit, if not already here) the better of the articles.
Not that, you know, I often take the time to do that, either - but it would improve the site and the discussions if we all did.
When I ran the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-Q4_0.ggu[1] version in Ollama, it got the strawberry test right, but when I paste that same question to OpenWebUI, it got wrong as you got here.
You should tell ChatGPT to translate your question to client language. I tried in Vietnamese but then the next questions and answers is still in English.
Pretty awesome idea btw. I would like to highlight a branch for deeper questions. Just to speed things up.
Check it out at: https://addons.subly.xyz & https://subly.xyz
The Firefox addon/Chrome extension is free, but you need your own OpenRouter/Gemini API key. The cost of web translation is really low, you can translate an article for ~$0.01 with really good quality. (You can try at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/subly-xyz/)
I built it because I use Firefox the most and it seemed like no translate addon was good or simple enough. Chrome translate kinda works, but the quality is so low; it usually doesn't understand the article context.